An Analysis of Style and Form in Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ With Special Reference to the Shower Scene

... An Analysis of Style and Form in Hitchcock's 'Psycho' With Special Reference to the Shower Scene Psycho has been referred to as 'Hitchcock's movie above all others'. The plot is simple, based on a novel by Robert Bloch, which in it's turn reflected a real incident of a man who kept the body of his mother in his house in Wisconsin. Psycho was filmed in black and white. Hitchcock's reason for this is that if the blood in the shower scene had been shown as red the scene would have been considered too disturbing and have been cut. However, the stark contrast between the black and white, shown again in the film when Marion changes to dark clothes and black underwear after she has stolen the money and become a 'thief', reflects the main theme of the film; the study of good and evil. The opening credits include the sharp contrasting

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